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Date:      Mon, 07 Oct 2002 18:35:14 -0400
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Brian Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile 
Message-ID:  <200210072235.g97MZEZv006342@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 00:27:41 %2B0200." <54259.1034029661@critter.freebsd.dk> 

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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <200210072221.g97MLGNL093580@freefall.freebsd.org>, Brian Feldman wr
> ites:
> >green       2002/10/07 15:21:16 PDT
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    sys/boot/i386/boot2  Makefile 
> >  Log:
> >  Correct a bug in adding 0x700 to a number.
> 
> It's bedtime here, way past in fact, and I'm not going into the lab
> again to find out what this does/is intended to do.
> 
> I succesfully booted on UFS1 and UFS2 without this change, but that
> doesn't necessarily mean that you broke it.
> 
> I just hope you know what you're doing...

At some point someone decided bogusly that the way to add a number to 0x700 
was to concatenate it.  I corrected that, so if xread is at an offset of >
0xff it won't completely fsck itself.

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